Revert "mm: shrinkers: convert shrinker_rwsem to mutex"
Patch series "revert shrinker_srcu related changes". This patch (of 7): This reverts commit cf2e309e. Kernel test robot reports -88.8% regression in stress-ng.ramfs.ops_per_sec test case [1], which is caused by commit f95bdb70 ("mm: vmscan: make global slab shrink lockless"). The root cause is that SRCU has to be careful to not frequently check for SRCU read-side critical section exits. Therefore, even if no one is currently in the SRCU read-side critical section, synchronize_srcu() cannot return quickly. That's why unregister_shrinker() has become slower. After discussion, we will try to use the refcount+RCU method [2] proposed by Dave Chinner to continue to re-implement the lockless slab shrink. So revert the shrinker_mutex back to shrinker_rwsem first. [1]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202305230837.db2c233f-yujie.liu@intel.com/ [2]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZIJhou1d55d4H1s0@dread.disaster.area/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230609081518.3039120-1-qi.zheng@linux.dev Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230609081518.3039120-2-qi.zheng@linux.dev Reported-by: kernel test robot <yujie.liu@intel.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202305230837.db2c233f-yujie.liu@intel.com Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@ya.ru> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Yujie Liu <yujie.liu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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